Stuck In Thee Garage #345: October 30, 2020

Boo! Yeah, I know. Halloween is a tad anti-climactic this year. I mean, how scary are monsters and ghosts and whatnot when compared to a global pandemic and this impending election? Pardon me if I don't jump at every floor creak this year. Nevertheless, it's still an excuse to play two hours of spooky, scary and just plain weird rock jams on Stuck In Thee Garage. Crank it up while you're having a drink at your local haunted hotel.

The freaktastic playlist:

Artist - Song/Album

Ministry - Everyday Is Halloween/Twelve Inch Singles (1981-1984)

Sonic Youth & Lydia Lunch - Death Valley '69/Bad Moon Rising

Frank Black - Six Sixty Six (live)/'93-'03

The Breeders - Hellbound/Pod

clipping. - Say the Name/Visions of Bodies Being Burned

Sad13 - The Crow/Haunted Painting

Ringo Deathstarr - Chainsaw Morning/God's Dream

Alice In Chains - Them Bones/Dirt

Kyuss - Demon Cleaner/Welcome to Sky Valley

Ramones - Pet Sematary/Brain Drain

The Afghan Whigs - Big Top Halloween/Big Top Halloween

The Dead Weather - Hang You From the Heavens/Horehound

Death From Above 1979 - Right On, Frankenstein!/The Physical World

Pavement - The Hexx/Terror Twilight

Wolf Parade - Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts/Apologies to the Queen Mary

TV On the Radio - Let the Devil In/Return to Cookie Mountain

Joy Division - Dead Souls/Still

Lemonheads - Skulls/Lovey

Metallica - Last Caress-Green Hell/The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited

Misfits - Die Die My Darling/Misfits

Entrance - Grim Reaper Blues/Prayer of Death

The Tragically Hip - Inevitability of Death/Day For Night

Toadies - Possum Kingdom/Rubberneck

Alice Cooper - I Love the Dead/Billion Dollar Babies

Cheap Trick - The Ballad of T.V. Violence/Cheap Trick

Iron Maiden - Only the Good Die Young/Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Black Sabbath - Hand of Doom/Paranoid

Stuck In Thee Garage #344: October 23, 2020

As is my wont with this show, I like to get nostalgic from time to time and play music from certain milestone years. At this point in time, 2010 feels like the very distant past to me. Things were very different in my life and the world. All we can do at this point is sidle up to the bar and order something strong. And enjoy some good rock songs.

This playlist is Boyd Crowder-approved:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

PUP - Rot/This Place Sucks Ass

Osees - Terminal Jape/Protean Threat

IDLES - Kill Them With Kindness/Ultra Mono

Fever Queen - Night Vision/The World of Fever Queen

Sad13 - Oops..!/Haunted Painting

Sweeping Promises - An Appetite/Hunger For a Way Out

Miranda Winters - Double Mirror Light/All-Purpose

Rilo Kiley - Glendora/Rilo Kiley

Laura Jane Grace - Shelter in Place/Stay Alive

Gord Downie - About Blank/Away Is Mine

Smokescreens - On and On/A Strange Dream

Kurt Vile - Speed of the Sound of Loneliness/Speed, Sound, Lonely KV

Soft Plastics - Here's Where the Sun Was/5 Dreams

Bob Mould - Baby Needs a Cookie/Blue Hearts

Future of the Left - Arming Eritrea/Live at Highbury Garage 1/12/16

Throwing Muses - St. Charles/Sun Racket

Knot - Orange/Knot

Fontaines D.C. - You Said/A Hero's Death

Hour 2: 2010

Grinderman - Evil!/Grinderman 2

Black Mountain - Old Fangs/Wilderness Heart

Neil Young - Angry World/Le Noise

LCD Soundsystem - Drunk Girls/This Is Happening

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Bottled In Cork/The Brutalist Bricks

Los Campesinos! - This Is a Flag. There Is No Wind/Romance Is Boring

Superchunk - Crossed Wires/Majesty Shredding

Das Racist - Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell/Shut Up, Dude

The 20/20 Project - Back to Work/Employees of the Year

Girl Talk - Oh No/All Day

Spoon - Written In Reverse/Transference

Les Savy Fav - Sleepless In Silverlake/Root For Ruin

Drive-By Truckers - After the Scene Dies/The Big To-Do

Titus Andronicus - A More Perfect Union/The Monitor

Completely Conspicuous 544: In the Light

I'm joined by guest Phil Stacey as we discuss our favorite albums of 1975. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded via Zoom

- RIP to EVH

- We both saw VH in 1986

- In '75, Phil turned 6, Jay turned 8

- "Love Will Keep Us Together" was the #1 song of the year

- Disco was starting to emerge

- The S.N.A.C.K. concert

- Phil's non-top 5: Parliament, Burning Spear, Patti Smith, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, Dylan and the Band

- Jay's non-top 5: AC/DC, Rush, The Who, Supertramp, Springsteen, McCartney/Wings

- Phil's #5: The Who tries some different sounds

- Jay's #5: Pink Floyd follows up a classic with another classic

- Phil's #4 and Jay's #3: Bowie moves into another phase

- Jay's #4: Queen breaks through with "Bohemian Rhapsody"

- Phil's #3 and Jay's #2: A gut-wrenching release from Neil Young

- Phil's 2: Dylan's 15th album is one of his best

- Phil and Jay's #1: A double album that highlights all the different facets of Zeppelin's sound

- Favorite songs: "Tonight's the Night" (Jay), "In the Light" (Phil)

- Things were happening

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

Stuck In Thee Garage #343: October 16, 2020

Vision is one of the most important senses for obvious reasons, but even if you have perfect vision, you can miss things. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about vision in hour 2. There's some good stuff in here, but I don't think it will make you see dead people.

This playlist has a twist ending:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Kiwi Jr. - Undecided Voters/Single

Laura Jane Grace - SuperNatural Possession/Stay Alive

Disheveled Cuss - She's Odd/Disheveled Cuss

METZ - Pulse/Atlas Vending

Jack White - Don't Hurt Yourself-Ball and Biscuit-Jesus Is Coming Soon/Live on SNL

Denzel Curry - Live From the Abyss/Single

Slow Pulp - Falling Apart/Moveys

Lydia Loveless - Love Is Not Enough/Daughter

The Mountain Goats - Get Famous/Getting Into Knives

Eli Gardiner - Tattered and Torn/The Fire and Medicine

Hallelujah the Hills - Are You Happy Now?/The World Is Most Certainly Haunted and I Am One of Its Best Ghosts

Sad13 - Ghost (of a Good Time)/Haunted Painting

Ex-Hyena - Shades/Artificial Pulse

Surfer Blood - New Direction/Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Vol. 2

Stone Gossard - Near/Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Vol. 2

Bob Mould Band - In a Free Land (Live in Seattle 2019)/Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Vol. 2

 

Hour 2: Vision

Soundgarden - Searching With My Good Eye Closed/Badmotorfinger

Dead Meadow - Seven Seers/Old Growth

Pedro the Lion - All Seeing Eye/Phoenix

Gary Numan - Observer/The Pleasure Principle

Low Fat Getting High - Can't See Anymore/Low Fat Getting High

Diarrhea Planet - Emmett's Vision/I'm Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams

Golden Gurls - I Can See the City/Typo Magic

Cloud Nothings - Giving Into Seeing/Here and Nowhere Else

Television - See No Evil/Marquee Moon

The Who - I Can See For Miles/The Who Sells Out

Buffalo Tom - The Seeker/Single

Minutemen - Don't Look Now/Double Nickels on the Dime

Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight/I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight

David Bowie - Sound and Vision/Low

Foo Fighters - See You/The Colour and the Shape

Split Single - Never Look Back/Fragmented World

Spoon - Something To Look Forward To/Kill the Moonlight

 

Completely Conspicuous 543: You Really Got Me

 

I'm joined by guest Brian Salvatore as we remember the greatness of Eddie Van Halen. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "Save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded via Skype

- Last spoke in late March but feels a lot longer ago

- We've been fascinated by Van Halen's career, the good and the bad

- Eddie had dealt with cancer before

- Death still came as a shock

- Plenty of musician deaths this year: Neil Peart, Andy Gill, David Roback, Kenny Rogers, Bill Rieflin, Bill Withers, Adam Schlesinger, John Prine, Florian Schneider, Pete Way, Peter Green

- Eddie was iconic and eternally youthful

- Brian: First video I remember seeing was "Jump"

- Played on Letterman a few times

- Jay: Stopped listening to VH in '91 and didn't again for almost a decade

- The "Right Now" video was surprising

- Dropoff in quality after Roth left

- 2012's A Different Kind of Truth was a decent way to go out

- Hopefully there will finally be some archival VH releases

- Who buys greatest hits albums?

- Eddie's guest appearances

- Jay: First became aware of VH in 1980 when Women and Children First came out

- Eddie had been quiet for several years

- Roth was doing a Vegas residency and opening for KISS just before the pandemic shutdown

- Missing live music

- Plenty of livestreams to check out

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

Stuck In Thee Garage #342: October 9, 2020

It's become an all-too familiar activity in the last few years, mourning the loss of a great artist. And it happened again this week with the death of Eddie Van Halen at the age of 65 to cancer. As old as that may seem for rock n' roll, he was still young in the grand scheme of things. And he'll forever be that youthful speed demon, leaping through the air as he fired off another ridiculously awesome guitar solo.

I paid tribute to EVH today on Stuck In Thee Garage in hour 2, playing a mix of Van Halen favorites you don't often hear and guest appearances he made on other artists' albums. Let remember him as he was, grinning as he blew our minds. (Or showing up in the occasional SNL skit.)

This playlist (and the cradle) will rock:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Pixies - Hear Me Out/Hear Me Out

Hoodoo Gurus - Get Out of Dodge/Get Out of Dodge

Midnight Oil - Gadigal Land/The Makarrata Project

METZ - Blind Youth Industrial Park/Atlas Vending

PUP - Edmonton/Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Vol. 2

Guided By Voices - Game of Prices (Live at the Teragram Ballroom, 12/31/19)/Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Vol. 2

Wolf Parade - ATA/Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Vol. 2

Sloan - Silence Trumps Lies/Silence Trumps Lies

Smokescreens - I Love Only You/A Strange Dream

Jeff Rosenstock - DONE DONE DONE/2020 Dump

Gord Downie - Useless Nights/Away Is Mine

Kurt Vile - Gone Girl/Speed, Sound, Lonely KV

Hallelujah the Hills - Lemonade Pop Rocks Candy Bar Ibogaine/The World Is Most Certainly Haunted and I am One of Its Best Ghosts

Disheveled Cuss - She Don't Want/Disheveled Cuss

Sad13 - Good Grief/Haunted Painting

IDLES - Carcinogenic/Ultra Mono

Bob Mould - Next Generation/Blue Hearts

Osees - Red Study/Protean Threat

 

Hour 2: EVH

Van Halen - Atomic Punk/Van Halen

Van Halen - D.O.A./Van Halen II

Brian May and Friends - Star Fleet/The Star Fleet Project

Van Halen - Women In Love/Van Halen II

Nicolette Larson - Can't Get Away From You/Nicolette 

Van Halen - Secrets/Diver Down

Van Halen - Romeo Delight/Women and Children First

Brian May and Friends - Let Me Out/The Star Fleet Project

Thomas Dolby - Close But No Cigar/Astronauts & Heretics

Thomas Dolby - Eastern Bloc/Astronauts & Heretics

Van Halen - House of Pain/1984

LL Cool J - We're the Greatest/Authentic

Van Halen - Bullethead/A Different Kind of Truth

Van Halen - Unchained/Fair Warning

 

 

Completely Conspicuous 542: Raised on Robbery

 

I'm joined by guest Phil Stacey as we discuss our favorite albums of 1974. Listen to the episode below or download directly.

Show notes:

- Recorded via Zoom

- Phil finally got a haircut

- In '74, Phil turned 5, I turned 7

- Capt. and Tennille got married, Sonny and Cher got divorced

- "The Streak" was a big hit

- Phil: Looking back, liked more songs than albums in '74

- Not a long list of albums we liked

- Radio was the main source of how people discovered music at that time

- Phil's likes: Linda Ronstadt, Little Feat, Bob Marley, Lou Reed, Gram Parsons, Big Star, Van Morrison, Clapton

- Jay's likes: Rush's debut album, Genesis, The Who, Queen, Steely Dan, Aerosmith, Zappa

- The various, very different, phases of Genesis' sound

- Queen is more popular than ever

- Jay's #5: Supertramp's breakthrough

- Phil's #5: Another great Stevie Wonder album

- Jay's and Phil's #4: Neil Young with a mellow classic, powered by "honey slides"

- Jay's #3: Big Star with an underrated power pop gem

- Phil's #3 and Jay's #1: Bowie closing out his glam period with a bang

- Phil's #2: Steely Dan featured a ton of guest musicians

- Jay's #2: Lou Reed releases a killer live show

- Phil's #1: Joni Mitchell hits it big with a jazzier sound, with help from Cheech & Chong

- Backed by Tom Scott, who later was bandleader on both the Pat Sajak and Chevy Chase late night shows

- Favorite songs: "Raised on Robbery" (Phil), "Diamond Dogs" (Jay)

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

Stuck In Thee Garage #341: October 2, 2020

With things so screwed up these days, there are a lot more excuses for being late to things. "Time has no meaning anymore" has become a mantra. There's a lot to be said about punctuality, but dammit, lateness is more interesting. That's why I played songs about lateness in hour 2 of today's installment of Stuck In Thee Garage (plus great songs from a ton of new releases this week).

Hey, it's the "I Didn't Do It" playlist:

Hour 1

Jeff Rosenstock - Dept of Finance/2020 Dump

Bob Mould - Siberian Rainbow/Blue Hearts

IDLES - Anxiety/Ultra Mono

Sad13 - WTD?/Haunted Painting

Bully - Hours and Hours/SUGAREGG

Dig Nitty - NYC/Reverse of Mastery

Ian Isiah - Can't Call It/AUNTIE

Smokescreens - Streets of Despair/A Strange Dream

Osees - Upbeat Ritual/Protean Threat

Disheveled Cuss - Shut Up/Disheveled Cuss

All Them Witches - Enemy of My Enemy/Nothing as the Ideal

Gord Downie - Hotel Worth/Away is Mine

Nada Surf - Sick Day/Saving For a Custom Van

Throwing Muses - Upstairs Dan/Sun Racket

The Psychedelic Furs - Stars/Made of Rain

Protomartyr - Bride & Crown/Ultimate Success Today

Kestrels - Keep It Close/Dream or Don't Dream

Lo Tom - In a Van/LP2

Hour 2: Late

The Jim Carroll Band - It's Too Late/Catholic Boy

Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers - Apocalypse Now (& Later)/Bought to Rot

Albert Hammond Jr. - Rocky's Late Night/Francis Trouble

Greg Dulli - Early Today (and Later That Night)/Amber Headlights

Van Halen - Hear About It Later/Fair Warning

Queen - It's Late/News of the World

Pavement - Elevate Me Later/Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

The Feelies - Sooner or Later/Time for a Witness

Wilco - The Late Greats/A Ghost is Born

Lubec - Late Bloomer/Concentration

Okkervil River - The Latest Toughs/Black Sheep Boy

Art Brut - Late Sunday Evening/It's a Bit Complicated

The English Beat - Save It For Later/Special Beat Service

Elliott Smith - See You Later/New Moon

Beach Slang - Too Late to Die Young/The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us

Buffalo Tom - Late at Night/Big Red Letter Day